de.schlichtherle.license
Interface LicenseVerifier

All Superinterfaces:

Remote

All Known Implementing Classes:

LicenseManager, LicenseManager

public interface LicenseVerifier
extends Remote

Provides remote license verification services.

Author:

Christian Schlichtherle

verify

LicenseContent verify(byte[] key)
                      throws Exception

Decrypts, decompresses, decodes and verifies the given license key, validates its license content and returns it.

Parameters:

key - The license key - may not be null.

Returns:

A clone of the verified and validated content of the license key - null is never returned.

Throws:

Exception - An instance of a subclass of this class for various reasons. Note that you should always use Throwable.getLocalizedMessage() to get a (possibly localized) meaningful detail message.